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Slapsie Maxie wrote:Although I lived up north for a while, I have to say the idea of living outside London gives me hives.

I promised myself a long time ago, I would never live more than 15 minutes walk from the nearest source of madagascan vanilla extract.

Mind you, I am just as biggoted about London itself.

NEVER EAST OF BETHNAL GREEN
NEVER NORTH OF CAMDEN

If I'd still live there and could afford it, my favorite neighborhood in London would be Primrose Hill, which falls into your boundaries. But right thereafter come Highgate/Hampstead/Tufnell Park - I just love Hampstead Heath. Btw, while I lived in Camden it was right at the border to Kentish Town, and this is quite nice too, at least east of Kentish Town Road.

Otherwise I quite enjoy the "Brit vs. Brit" discussion that I seem to have triggered..... You give me amunition for future rounds

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pundit wrote:I just love Hampstead Heath

You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

Loftgroov wrote:

pundit wrote:I just love Hampstead Heath

You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

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Loftgroov wrote:

pundit wrote:I just love Hampstead Heath

You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

Deserter wrote:

Loftgroov wrote:

pundit wrote:I just love Hampstead Heath

You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

Don't get your point.

pundit wrote:

Deserter wrote:

Loftgroov wrote: You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

Don't get your point.

LMAO

achybreaky wrote:

pundit wrote:

Deserter wrote:

Don't get your point.

LMAO

Ammo is that last thing you'd want to put there Pundit

Brillant!!

pundit wrote:

Loftgroov wrote:

pundit wrote:I just love Hampstead Heath

You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

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I think he is suggesting that you may "change at Baker St"

I.E. where the pink line meets the brown!

Slapsie

Loftgroov wrote:

Deserter wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:This is especially true in the south west, where they find the thought out outisders moving in particularly disturbing.

Hard to argue with. There was a guy working at Hinkley Point Power Station just outside Bridgwater and one night he asked a couple of local guys where the chippie was. They picked up on his Northern accent and thought it would be 'fun' to throw him through the window of the shop they were standing outside.
There are some very insular idiots around.

Go and sit in a Glasgow pub with an English accent, a Swansea pub with a Cardiff accent, a Liverpool pub in a Man Utd shirt, a Portsmouth pub in a Southampton shirt…..

There is bigotry and moronic behaviour everywhere mate. It’s hardly “an issue of the south west”…..

I'm not saying the problem is confined to the southwest, many parts of the UK have similiar problems.

However, unlike many other parts of the world, the southwestern counties have been subject to less change than the rest of the country.

The very fact that they have a word for outsiders 'grokles' (spelling?) says a lot about the mentality.

My cousin moved down to Devon about a year or so ago, and he said most of the people in the village where he lives (near Salcombe) have never set foot outside the UK, and many of them have never even been to London. He also said that it took many months before people would talk to him there, though that may be because he is a loon.

Slapsie Maxie wrote:Although I lived up north for a while, I have to say the idea of living outside London gives me hives.

I promised myself a long time ago, I would never live more than 15 minutes walk from the nearest source of madagascan vanilla extract.

Mind you, I am just as biggoted about London itself.

NEVER EAST OF BETHNAL GREEN
NEVER NORTH OF CAMDEN
NEVER WEST OF MARBLE ARCH
NEVER SOUTH OF THE RIVER

Slapsie

Is it just me, or does anyone else here have an image of Slapsie as some sort of modern Day Dorian Gray? I'll bet he has a selection of natty crevattes.

Where in London do you live, and how dare you impugn the good name of South London? Having grown up in West London (Fulham), and lived in Greenwich, Notting Hill, Shepherd's Bush, Seven Sisters, amongst other places, I have to say that I prefer South London. The amount of green space in South London is unparalleled elsewhere in London.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Slapsie Maxie wrote:Although I lived up north for a while, I have to say the idea of living outside London gives me hives.

I promised myself a long time ago, I would never live more than 15 minutes walk from the nearest source of madagascan vanilla extract.

Mind you, I am just as biggoted about London itself.

NEVER EAST OF BETHNAL GREEN
NEVER NORTH OF CAMDEN
NEVER WEST OF MARBLE ARCH
NEVER SOUTH OF THE RIVER

Slapsie

Is it just me, or does anyone else here have an image of Slapsie as some sort of modern Day Dorian Gray? I'll bet he has a selection of natty crevattes.

Where in London do you live, and how dare you impugn the good name of South London? Having grown up in West London (Fulham), and lived in Greenwich, Notting Hill, Shepherd's Bush, Seven Sisters, amongst other places, I have to say that I prefer South London. The amount of green space in South London is unparalleled elsewhere in London.

Green Space, granted, but you wouldn't walk through it at night!

pundit wrote:

Loftgroov wrote:

pundit wrote:I just love Hampstead Heath

You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

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It's a notorious hang out for gay Americans, like you didn't know! And I'm told, unlike Calzaghe they don't pull out at the last minute, dude!

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Slapsie Maxie wrote:Although I lived up north for a while, I have to say the idea of living outside London gives me hives.

I promised myself a long time ago, I would never live more than 15 minutes walk from the nearest source of madagascan vanilla extract.

Mind you, I am just as biggoted about London itself.

NEVER EAST OF BETHNAL GREEN
NEVER NORTH OF CAMDEN
NEVER WEST OF MARBLE ARCH
NEVER SOUTH OF THE RIVER

Slapsie

Is it just me, or does anyone else here have an image of Slapsie as some sort of modern Day Dorian Gray? I'll bet he has a selection of natty crevattes.

Where in London do you live, and how dare you impugn the good name of South London? Having grown up in West London (Fulham), and lived in Greenwich, Notting Hill, Shepherd's Bush, Seven Sisters, amongst other places, I have to say that I prefer South London. The amount of green space in South London is unparalleled elsewhere in London.

Interstingly, I am lounging in a Wildian fashion on a chaise longue as I type. A pill box tassled hat on my head and a pair of pince nez perched studiously on my nose. I have a leather bound copy of Samson Agonistes on my lap. I find this is the only way to recover when I am in the ill humours

Slapsie

MightyWarrior wrote:

pundit wrote:

Loftgroov wrote: You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

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It's a notorious hang out for gay Americans, like you didn't know! And I'm told, unlike Calzaghe they don't pull out at the last minute, dude!

Pundits Suddenly gone quiet

boxingchat wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Slapsie Maxie wrote:Although I lived up north for a while, I have to say the idea of living outside London gives me hives.

I promised myself a long time ago, I would never live more than 15 minutes walk from the nearest source of madagascan vanilla extract.

Mind you, I am just as biggoted about London itself.

NEVER EAST OF BETHNAL GREEN
NEVER NORTH OF CAMDEN
NEVER WEST OF MARBLE ARCH
NEVER SOUTH OF THE RIVER

Slapsie

Is it just me, or does anyone else here have an image of Slapsie as some sort of modern Day Dorian Gray? I'll bet he has a selection of natty crevattes.

Where in London do you live, and how dare you impugn the good name of South London? Having grown up in West London (Fulham), and lived in Greenwich, Notting Hill, Shepherd's Bush, Seven Sisters, amongst other places, I have to say that I prefer South London. The amount of green space in South London is unparalleled elsewhere in London.

Green Space, granted, but you wouldn't walk through it at night!

Walking through green spaces at night is not really my thing as I am not into dogging or anal antics....more of an issue for pundit methinks.

Slapsie Maxie wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Slapsie Maxie wrote:Although I lived up north for a while, I have to say the idea of living outside London gives me hives.

I promised myself a long time ago, I would never live more than 15 minutes walk from the nearest source of madagascan vanilla extract.

Mind you, I am just as biggoted about London itself.

NEVER EAST OF BETHNAL GREEN
NEVER NORTH OF CAMDEN
NEVER WEST OF MARBLE ARCH
NEVER SOUTH OF THE RIVER

Slapsie

Is it just me, or does anyone else here have an image of Slapsie as some sort of modern Day Dorian Gray? I'll bet he has a selection of natty crevattes.

Where in London do you live, and how dare you impugn the good name of South London? Having grown up in West London (Fulham), and lived in Greenwich, Notting Hill, Shepherd's Bush, Seven Sisters, amongst other places, I have to say that I prefer South London. The amount of green space in South London is unparalleled elsewhere in London.

Interstingly, I am lounging in a Wildian fashion on a chaise longue as I type. A pill box tassled hat on my head and a pair of pince nez perched studiously on my nose. I have a leather bound copy of Samson Agonistes on my lap. I find this is the only way to recover when I am in the ill humours

Slapsie

Ponce!

Fack me this thread is hilarious good work lads

as someone who gre up in devon and now resides in London I have seen life on both side sof the fence, Devon is lovely the pace of life is wonderful, the countryside is to die for (same goes for dorset somerset and cornwall). However the fact they call people Grockles, emmits or other is more down to the influx of holidaymakers, that flood during summer months.

Now yes these poeple bring business nd help the economy of the afroresaid coutnies but the resentment comes form the fact that some of these people abuse the natural resources, spread litter everwhere in seaside towns often get involved in toruble or if older insist on driving down the promeoade at 3 miles an hour not looking where they are going while coo-ing gently "oooh look the sea"


LIKE YOU fornicating HAVENT SEEN THE SEA BEFORE YOU SENILE OLD BASTARD.


sorry, lost it there, i kid you not though as a kid I used to overtake such folk on my bicycle.

Fact is most towns compared to London will appear insular and small complicated due to the size and the fact they probably are in comparison.

London however on the up side is far more vibrant, culturally aware and with more things to do.

In short grow up in devon live in london and retire to Oz.

As someone who has visited Devon for holidays about 16 times I can confirm the place is class!!

Good race courses, nice beaches, weather tends to be good, best pub food in the world at the Hare and Hounds in Kingskerswell

Decent night light and loads of fanny!!

I am a geordie and generally Newcastle is getting better - sorry guys I find London a cold unwelcoming place

Sorry!!!

I don't think London is unfriendly, it's just that because it's so packed everywhere you go, people can appear standoffish at first. Obviously if you go to some uberswanky bar full of beard stroking fuckers who think they are too cool for school, who practice being effette and aloof, then you are going to make tonnes of new friends, but not everywhere is like that.

I'll admit that it's easier to get chatting to people outside of london, but I chat to anyone and everyone on the average night out so not everyone in London is a cold unfeeling bastard.

Beard stroking too cool for scho0l - fornicating class!!!

Didnt mean to generalise - just speaking from experience though from when I went to Audley v Danny

Convent Garden was lovely mind - good pubs nice fanny

Generally Newcastle is such a friendly place everywhere else seems unfriendly if that makes sense

Although tolerance in Newcastle is an ugly word!!!

Wrists wrote: good pubs nice fanny

There's a theme building here



Slapsie

nice fanny in convent garden as opposed to the bigg market slappers we are used to in Newcastle

I like to work for my leg overs!!

MightyWarrior wrote:

pundit wrote:

Loftgroov wrote: You just gave me all the ammo I need mate

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It's a notorious hang out for gay Americans, like you didn't know! And I'm told, unlike Calzaghe they don't pull out at the last minute, dude!

Na, didn't know that, I thought the gay scene was concentrated in Soho (but then, aren't all English men kinda....?)

Anyway, why shouldn't gays enjoy Hampstead Heath as well.

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No that's just the rumour we spread about ourselves so that we lull American girls into a false sense of security before rodgering them senseless and sending them back to their boyfriends back home dosed up to the eyeballs with clap.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:No that's just the rumour we spread about ourselves so that we lull American girls into a false sense of security before rodgering them senseless and sending them back to their boyfriends back home dosed up to the eyeballs with clap.

Well I guess you have to (or at least have to try), given the very limited acceptable "home-made" options...
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